CAREER CONNECT  
Tucson Unified Career & Technical Education Accomplishments
 FEBRUARY 2019 CTE MONTH WEEK 3
Celebrate accomplishments of Tucson Unified Career and Technical Education students & teachers in this edition of   Career Connect. 
February is CTE Month!
SANTA RITA GROUND BREAKING

Friday February 15, dignitaries from throughout the state gathered at Santa Rita High School to celebrate the ground breaking and formally begin the process of building the TUSD Dental Assisting and Diesel Mechanics programs. There were news stories by all local media stations. Take a look!

KVOA NEWS: CTE Dental and Diesel Building Groundbreaking at Santa Rita HS
KVOA NEWS: CTE Dental and Diesel Building Groundbreaking at Santa Rita HS
KGUN 9 NEWS: Career tech programs are building the future workforce
KGUN 9 NEWS: Career tech programs are building the future workforce

KOLD 13 NEWS_

SkillsUSA Region 6 Competitions
Friday and Saturday, February 15-16 Career and Tech Student Organizations (CTSO's) participated in a regional competition that was a qualifier for State and National competitions.
A ccording to Pete Pederson, SkillsUSA Arizona, Region 6 Coordinator, 456 students and advisors participated in competitions at Catalina High, PCC West, Amphi High and Pima JTED Star Center.
The welding and welding fabrication will be completed March 8th. Special acknowledgement to TUSD CTE Academic Trainer, Jack Draper for coordinating all Construction Technology competitions and to Chef Gradowski for feeding the hungry masses.

L-R: Hayes Salt, Madison Reedy & Connor Spowart


KVOA 4 NEWS: SkillsUSA Regional Competition
KVOA 4 NEWS: SkillsUSA Regional Competition

SkillsUSA SPOTLIGHT

Madison Reedy, a  Sophomore at Catalina High  won the Sheet Metal Competition, qualifying for Nationals. She said what she likes about sheet metal is "m aking something out of nothing."




A rainy start to the day for the Construction competition

Electrical competition


Masonry competition





Hungry competitors enjoyed a great lunch.


Taking a break

Special thanks to Chef Gradowski, our Catalina Culinary Arts Teacher.

The Catalina Culinary Crew made a delicious meal.

Focus and concentration

Children's Museum Tucson
SCIFEST WAS A BLAST!
Saturday, February 16, TUSD CTE Teachers and Students volunteered at the Arizona SciTech Festivals' Family SciFest at the Children's Museum. There were  more than 100 STEM activities and demonstrations.

Automotive Instructor Paul Sweeny with Virtual Reality Automotive Collision paint sprayer

Precision Machining students made a ring-toss game.







Bioscience students celebrating DNA!



Catalina High construction students making bird houses

Sports Medicine students demonstrating proper techniques.

Catalina Construction students wearing their football jerseys to make bird houses.
VEX ROBOTICS at SAHUARO

Saturday February 16, Sahuaro High sponsored a VEX Robotics tournament. CTE Teachers Ben Davis and Christian ran the event and had 22 teams competing from throughout the state.



One of three Sahuaro teams competing.
Sahuaro High CTE Teacher Andrew Christian with competitors.

Girl Power team from Sahuaro prep their robot.


DATES TO REMEMBER
Save the Date!
2/21-22
RODEO WEEKEND - NO SCHOOL
3/5/19
TUSD1 CTE Department Chair meeting
3/15/19
TUSD1 End Q3
3/18-3/22
TUSD1 SPRING BREAK - NO SCHOOL
3/22/19
HOSA Spring Leadership Conference (Tucson, AZ)
4/12-13 
SkillsUSA State Championships (Phx, AZ)
4/15-17 
FCCLA - State Conference 
4/19/19
TUSD1 Spring Holiday
5/23/19
TUSD1 Graduation & Last Day for Students
5/24/19
TUSD1 Last Day Teachers



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